Care to enlighten us on what was lacking with Eclipse and CDT?
Refactoring. SlickEdit has decent, useful refactoring transforms for C/C++. This proves that they can be implemented reasonably, even if they're not totally safe in a semantics-preserving sense.
Eclipse+CDT, OTOH, has only a rename transform, and even that's still in alpha.
CMMI doesn't guarantee good practice any more than membership in the Better Business Bureau guarantees good business. But I'd rather work in a shop that has CMMI in place than one that doesn't. It's insurance against the sort of death marches that create slapdash practice, shoddy product, and security holes in the first place.
100% of the people are on the road 100% of the time to scrounge money from internal customers or to do work at internal customer sites. There is no sales staff and all employees are told that they have a new milestone of personally scrounging X dollars from the business units. The only plan to change the situation is to do the wrong thing harder. Senior employees are told they are a burden and should think about leaving.
These are sure signs that you are working for an organization that has no idea what to do with itself or its own people, and is just surviving for the sake of its own survival. This is a career trap. Start packing your personal effects.
Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases in brand awareness, through viral processes similar to the spread of an epidemic. It is word-of-mouth delivered and enhanced online; it harnesses the network effect of the Internet and can be very useful in reaching a large number of people rapidly.
Of course, Wikipedia is a viral reference.
And, BTW, real viruses can't spread themselves, as they have no legs, wings, flagellae, or other motive organs.
Intel is seeking to differentiate the generations of their own product from each other, rather than the same generation processors from their competitors. After all, when you have a monopoly, there is little real point in differentiating yourself from competition that only weakly exists. (And that happens automatically, anyway, since all the competition has to be monopoly-compatible.)
Due to Gates' Corollary to Amdahl's Law, growth in performance won't matter for consumer PCs in the forseeable future. Windows Next Year runs Word about as fast as Windows Five Years Ago did. Shrinkage in power consumption, however, might just induce people to trade up.
US magazine Information Week last week reported that there are signs spam is "nowhere near the problem it was a few years ago", in part because of filtering technology.
I could buy an Armani suit and an MBA from a second-rate school and my customers would think that I posessed the Wisdom of the Ages.
No obligation to actually know what I was talking about or even be consistent. I could say anything I want, say something completely contradictory in six months, and they still would think I posessed the Wisdom of the Ages.
No messy problems of actually making stuff work.
Stock manipulation.
I wouldn't even have to think of five real reasons.
The Hubble operational concept presumes periodic repair by human crews. It is extremely expensive and dangerous to send human crews into space. This is not likely to change anytime soon. And trying to develop robots to service Hubble is a neat idea, but doing it on a tight time frame before Hubble breaks down completely is like pushing a rope.
One way to proceed would be not to risk any more lives on service missions, but instead to fly a replacement of Hubble that can be serviced robotically. (And, of course, to build the robots to service it.)
For some of NASA's planned missions that are going to be orbiting at 4000 miles AGL, robotic servicing isn't just a good idea, it'll be necessary.
Shortly after 9/11, we were looking at it for firefighter communications within buildings. Radar applications for locating victims were mentioned. I also learned that the spooks had had the technology for at least fifteen years before that.
As often happens, it's just now making its slow way onto the civilian market.
Satan's Satellites (1958) Genre: Sci-Fi (more) Plot Outline: Feature version of the 1952 serial "Zombies of the Stratosphere." User Rating: 3.6/10 (9 votes) If you like this title, we also recommend... Missile Monsters (1958)
A fine motion picture that's got "MST3K" written all over it...
Both, really. The Aereon crew proposed (and built) a pure airship in the beginning of their lifespan, then shifted to an airship/lifting body hybrid in a second incarnation.
The cautionary tale of the Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
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Blimps... In... Space...
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Synopsis: Zealots (both religious and technological) try to revive airships for use in inexpensive air transport, fail badly a couple of times, succeed technically on last dime, go broke. No one pays attention afterward.
Proponents were plagued by systemic resistance to lighter-than-air technology (in addition to many, many other problems.) Interesting accounts of how the last Navy airship pilots proved their ships were capable of much more than heavier-than-air -- just before the DOD pulled the plug on military LTA vehicles.
Companies like Lucent and AT&T have been surviving on downsizing for years. Announce X jobs cut (or outsourced) and the stock goes up. It's easier for the CEOs than taking care of the company.
Slashdot Mirror
Care to enlighten us on what was lacking with Eclipse and CDT?
Refactoring. SlickEdit has decent, useful refactoring transforms for C/C++. This proves that they can be implemented reasonably, even if they're not totally safe in a semantics-preserving sense.
Eclipse+CDT, OTOH, has only a rename transform, and even that's still in alpha.
For-fee site. Somewhat of a lower signal-to-whine ration than I'd like, but still useful.
CMMI doesn't guarantee good practice any more than membership in the Better Business Bureau guarantees good business. But I'd rather work in a shop that has CMMI in place than one that doesn't. It's insurance against the sort of death marches that create slapdash practice, shoddy product, and security holes in the first place.
100% of the people are on the road 100% of the time to scrounge money from internal customers or to do work at internal customer sites. There is no sales staff and all employees are told that they have a new milestone of personally scrounging X dollars from the business units. The only plan to change the situation is to do the wrong thing harder. Senior employees are told they are a burden and should think about leaving.
These are sure signs that you are working for an organization that has no idea what to do with itself or its own people, and is just surviving for the sake of its own survival. This is a career trap. Start packing your personal effects.
Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that seek to exploit pre-existing social networks to produce exponential increases in brand awareness, through viral processes similar to the spread of an epidemic. It is word-of-mouth delivered and enhanced online; it harnesses the network effect of the Internet and can be very useful in reaching a large number of people rapidly.
Of course, Wikipedia is a viral reference.
And, BTW, real viruses can't spread themselves, as they have no legs, wings, flagellae, or other motive organs.
Intel is seeking to differentiate the generations of their own product from each other, rather than the same generation processors from their competitors. After all, when you have a monopoly, there is little real point in differentiating yourself from competition that only weakly exists. (And that happens automatically, anyway, since all the competition has to be monopoly-compatible.)
Due to Gates' Corollary to Amdahl's Law, growth in performance won't matter for consumer PCs in the forseeable future. Windows Next Year runs Word about as fast as Windows Five Years Ago did. Shrinkage in power consumption, however, might just induce people to trade up.
Correct. Spam is far worse than it was a few years ago.
...the existence of a restaurant at the end of the universe.
FxCop.
- pd
IOW, if they simply spend less on IT, they will get more and be the big winners. A simple formula, like downsizing
I, for one, hope this doesn't become YA suit stampede.
The Hubble operational concept presumes periodic repair by human crews. It is extremely expensive and dangerous to send human crews into space. This is not likely to change anytime soon. And trying to develop robots to service Hubble is a neat idea, but doing it on a tight time frame before Hubble breaks down completely is like pushing a rope.
One way to proceed would be not to risk any more lives on service missions, but instead to fly a replacement of Hubble that can be serviced robotically. (And, of course, to build the robots to service it.)
For some of NASA's planned missions that are going to be orbiting at 4000 miles AGL, robotic servicing isn't just a good idea, it'll be necessary.
$65.02M. About 0.04% of IBM's.
IBM can drain SCOX dry without missing a cycle.
Shortly after 9/11, we were looking at it for firefighter communications within buildings. Radar applications for locating victims were mentioned. I also learned that the spooks had had the technology for at least fifteen years before that.
As often happens, it's just now making its slow way onto the civilian market.
A fine motion picture that's got "MST3K" written all over it...
I'd rather have an environment that I can control completely. Including windows that open. And the ability to take the work outside if I want.
Living in a refrigerated glass box saps your soul.
With appropriate support infrastructure at home, of course.
Both, really. The Aereon crew proposed (and built) a pure airship in the beginning of their lifespan, then shifted to an airship/lifting body hybrid in a second incarnation.
A very readable John McPhee nonfiction book.
Synopsis: Zealots (both religious and technological) try to revive airships for use in inexpensive air transport, fail badly a couple of times, succeed technically on last dime, go broke. No one pays attention afterward.
Proponents were plagued by systemic resistance to lighter-than-air technology (in addition to many, many other problems.) Interesting accounts of how the last Navy airship pilots proved their ships were capable of much more than heavier-than-air -- just before the DOD pulled the plug on military LTA vehicles.
...you can always outsource your Constitutional rights to New Jersey.
I'm in an R&D lab specializing in computer stuff. It's opening an operation in Bangalore.
Companies like Lucent and AT&T have been surviving on downsizing for years. Announce X jobs cut (or outsourced) and the stock goes up. It's easier for the CEOs than taking care of the company.
Moore's Law: The number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented.
Gates's Corollary: Since 1981, all this gain has been absorbed by Microsoft software.
Meta tags for longitude and latitude.
Googlecaching!
The sport where the cache searches for YOU!
(Searched for "geocache" within the default radius of my home. No hits.)